Pal Theatre

dallasmovietheaters on July 3, 2021 at 10:52 pm

The Oliver Theatre was a new-build facility that essentially replaced the Valley Theatre as the town’s movie house. It opened May 6, 1921 and in January of 1930 it shifted to a policy of all talking pictures after installing a sound system. In 1947, the theatre was sold by Dean Krotter to J.M. Williamson. He changed the name of the venue to the Pal Theatre in May of 1947.

Fifteen miles away in Trenton, Nebraska, the Roxy installed CinemaScope in December of 1954. The Pal soldiered on but apparently enough movie goers preferred the drive to the technically superior Roxy that business waned. The Pal closed on April 16, 1956 with Humphrey Bogart in “The Desperate Hours.”